Art World A Weapons Company Named After Leonardo da Vinci Really Wants to Invade the Art World. It Keeps Blowing Up in Its Face. After a series of PR disasters, the defense contractor formerly ...

A new study examining some of Leonardo da Vinci's sketches in the Codex Arundel reveals the artist calculated the earth's gravitational constant at a 97% accuracy rate.

More than 4,000 pages of Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks remain. Over his lifetime, he made meticulous observations, drew fantastical flying machines, sketched castles and church architecture ...

Leonardo da Vinci’s Workshop, an exhibit opening Friday in New York, features life-size models of the great inventor’s machines, including his Mechanical Lion (pictured), weapons of war and ...

Leonardo da Vinci dreamed up plans for mechanisms that would allow humans to fly, ... Art was valued, but there's always been more money in arms and weapons." March 7, 2008. EILEEN MCCLELLAND.

(Image credit: Leonardo da Vinci via Leonardodavinci.net) Machine gun That's right: The same man who painted "The Last Supper" designed a weapon that, at least in some ways, resembles a modern ...

Turns throughout PBS' “Leonardo da Vinci” remind us of how similar his era was to ours. Da Vinci’s Renaissance was a time of doubt and great uncertainty. His native city of Florence, Italy ...

Leonardo da Vinci approached the world with a fearless ambition to expand his mind. However, as an illegitimate son, he was unable to receive a classical education. Fortunately, Leonardo saw this ...

Leonardo da Vinci's schematics and notes for his experiment on the equivalence of the effects of gravity and acceleration. Credit: Gharib et al., 2023/British Library ...